The cherry tomato with the most infamous name and one of the very best flavors you’ll ever taste.
 
Tiny, bright red, perfectly round ½-inch fruits explode with intense old-fashioned sweetness—true kid candy that rarely makes it past little hands (or adult ones). Super-prolific indeterminate vines regularly stretch 10–12 ft or more and produce ridiculous quantities from early season until frost. Crack-resistant and nearly carefree.
 
Plant them in the hottest, driest corner of your yard and just let them run—no caging will ever contain these beasts. When harvesting (if any actually reach the kitchen), snip entire sprigs instead of individual fruits; they’ll stay fresh on the counter for days.

HISTORY: In the 1980s, Seed Savers Exchange co-founder Kent Whealy received an unmarked packet of exceptional red cherry seeds from an elderly gardener in Iowa. When Kent asked what it was called, the man laughed and said, “We just call it the Outhouse tomato—because the vines always grew up the back of the outhouse and we’d pick cherries while we were... occupied.” Kent listed it exactly that way in the 1986 SSE Yearbook, and the name stuck forever.
 
Independently, the same (or extremely similar) ultra-sweet, sprawling, ½-inch red cherry has been grown and shared for generations in Lakeland, Florida, where local gardeners simply knew it as their heat-loving backyard favorite. That central-Florida strain — preserved in Lakeland family gardens — matches the Iowa “Outhouse” in every way: identical fruit size, explosive sweetness, and wild 10–12 ft vines that thrive on neglect in hot, dry spots. Whether the Florida and Iowa lines are the same ancient heirloom or parallel selections, today’s Outhouse carries both the hilarious Midwestern folklore and a sunny Lakeland pedigree.
 
Sold as a single plant in a 3.5" pot.